10.6

103Logic Pro Instruments
MSEG controls
• Current MSEG pop-up menu and field: Access each MSEG control panel by choosing a
number from the pop-up menu or with the Previous and Next arrows. Alchemy provides
up to 16 envelopes—one by default, but more if you create them when assigning
modulators.
• File button: Open a pop-up menu with a number of MSEG-related commands.
• Preset submenu: Choose a preset envelope shape. This can be used as is, or as a
starting point for your own envelope shapes.
• Save: Save the current envelope. A dialog opens in which you can name and save the
envelope file (*.mse). The new envelope name appears at the bottom of the Preset
submenu.
• Copy/Paste: Use these commands to copy settings between envelopes.
• Clear: Initialize the MSEG.
• Randomize: Create a random envelope shape. This can be used as is, or as a starting
point for your own envelope shapes.
• Trigger pop-up menu: Choose On to retrigger the MSEG (start from zero) with each new
played note. Off triggers the MSEG for the first note only. Voice On/FX Off modulates
voice parameters only, not effects. In Off mode, the MSEG retriggers only for notes
received after all other notes have been released.
Note: Settings from earlier application versions may not behave as expected because
of the additional trigger option. Change to VoiceOn/FX Off to match the former version
behavior, then resave the setting.
• Sync button: Turn on to synchronize the MSEG with the project tempo. When you adjust
or create envelope points, they snap to bars and beats. Turn off to set envelope point
positions freely.
• Snap Y pop-up menu and field: Quantize point levels (or y values), limiting them to
exact fractions of the available range. For example, a Snap Y setting of 1/3 snaps point
levels to the values 0, 1/3, 2/3, and 1 when a point is dragged. Off disables quantization
and lets you set point levels freely. You can also step through Snap Y values with the
Previous and Next buttons (the arrows).
Note: The Snap Y setting doesn’t move existing point levels into alignment with
quantized positions; it only affects the response of points when created or dragged.
• Loop Mode pop-up menu and field: Choose one of four MSEG loop modes.
• None: Looping is disabled. The loop markers remain visible in the MSEG display but
have no effect in this mode.
• Continuous: The loop section plays continuously in a forward direction while a note
is held and continues after the note is released.
• Sustain: The loop section is played while a note is held. When the note is released,
the remainder (or release section) of the envelope plays.
• Forward/Back: The loop section plays alternately in a forward/backward direction
while a note is held and continues after the note is released.